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Japan Display Inc, the world's biggest maker of screens for tablets and smartphones, set the price of its stock listing at the bottom of its guidance range after foreign investors gave the off...

New Delhi - Shares in Indian drug giant Ranbaxy fell as much as four percent on Monday following news of a second recall of its cholesterol-busting generic drug.It was the latest blow for the New Delhi-based drugmaker, majority-owned by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo, t...

Tokyo - Japan has no plan to revise a landmark 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, the government's top spokesman said Monday, despite a controversial review of the statement which has sparked a backlash at home and abroad.The landmark apology, known as the...

Tokyo - Japan Display, the world's biggest maker of screens for smartphones and tablets and a key supplier to Apple, said Monday it had raised $3.2 billion in an initial public offering ahead of a listing later this month.An official filing said its offering w...

The Bank of Japan is expected to maintain its massive monetary stimulus on Tuesday on a view the economy can weather a sales tax increase in April without extra support, although there is expected to be s...

Tokyo - Japan's economy expanded 0.2 percent in the quarter to December and 1.5 percent through 2013, revised data showed Monday, as growth came in slightly weaker than previously thought.Preliminary figures last month showed that gross domestic product grew 0...

Celaya - Celaya, an industrial city in the heart of Mexico, now has a Japanese language class where the teacher uses honorifics, addressing her students as "Felipe-san" or "Christian-san."Across town, a hotel installed a special satellite dish on its rooftop to...

- Yasuo Takamatsu, 57, grunts with the effort of hoisting a scuba diving tank onto his back, as he prepares to step into the cold waters off Japan's tsunami-ravaged coast to look for the body of his wife, one of thousands still missing three years on.A s...

Tokyo - Tens of thousands of citizens turned out for an anti-nuclear rally in Tokyo on Sunday, as the nation prepares to mark the third anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.Demonstrators congregated at Hibiya Park, close to central government buildings, befor...

Tokyo - Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced massive hacker offensives last month, coming under some 150,000 DDoS attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said Sunday.The Tokyo-based exchange, which filed for bankruptcy protection...